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Philosophy Talk The program that questions everything... except your intelligence – Sundays at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at www.kalw.org.

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06/11/2026

It's LGBTQ+ , and for our next episode our Roving Philosophical Reporter brings us this excerpt from KALW's tbh podcast in which Cassidy Kanner-Gomes explains how the covid pandemic sparked a deeper exploration of gender identity.

06/06/2026

06/05/2026

Coming up: What is experience really like before reason comes along to change everything? Josh and Ray explore the life & thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty with Taylor Carman from Barnard College, author of "Merleau-Ponty (Routledge Philosophers)."

🎧 Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2026-06-05/merleau-ponty-and-perception

06/04/2026

For our next episode, Josh and Ray explore the life & thought of 20th century French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty with Taylor Carman from Barnard College.

Ahead of the broadcast, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Sarah Lai Stirland, to talk to thinkers (and companions 🤖) who agree with Merleau-Ponty that the body is an essential part of our , like Alva Noë from UC Berkeley and Corianne Rogalsky from Arizona State University.

More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/merleau-ponty-and-perception

Junebugs abide! Check out episodes in our library featuring these June babies: Jürgen Habermas (June 18, 1929), Jean-Pau...
06/03/2026

Junebugs abide! Check out episodes in our library featuring these June babies: Jürgen Habermas (June 18, 1929), Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905), Alan Turing (June 23, 1912), and Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869), along with past guests Irv Yalom (June 13, 1931) and the late Geoff Nunberg (June 1, 1945).

More at https://philosophytalk.org/playlist/junebugs

German philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas, who died earlier this year, has the distinction of being the only then-living figure to be the subject of one of our episodes. But he’s also just one among other thinkers and guests whose birthdays fall this month (June 18, 1929). An old fri...

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